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The gloves, they be coming off.
January 6 panel moves to hold Steve Bannon in criminal contempt - CNNPolitics

 

This is a helluva read - and infuriating when you get to the part where Democrats happily sabotage themselves to please the same old fossils at the top of the org chart.

Katie Porter Has the Floor

 

Which also comes back to what the "forensic audits" are really about: they want to be able to figure out who voted for who. They want your name and address.

 

Nothing's "serious" until the shit-smelling slob is marched into an arraignment strapped in Velcro cuffs.

And once again, this is a pig who is working furiously for the overthrow of the Pope. There are at least by some definition 1.6 billion Catholics worldwide, you'd think at some point at least one of them would be upset enough at the threat to the supreme pontiff they'd go and snuff Bannon.

 

Remember when Trump bragged about the size of his subpoenas during a debate?

 

It’s interesting to see some of the stuff like the supply crises just now really getting politicized, IMO, for instance, with “empty shelves Joe” trending on Twitter. As if people weren’t prepared to murder for toilet paper when the last guy was in charge.

I reached out yesterday to a friend in Air Traffic Control to figure out what was real and what wasn’t about airline issues.

Long story short, there is frustration about vax mandates, but he’s not sure how much. He guessed maybe 20% of controllers were really fired up. Not sure how many of those would be willing to quit. He was personally frustrated with the Union rolling over on Vaccines, even though he has his. Doesn’t think the Union should be involved in something that gets controllers fired, especially now.

Which brings us to the real problem: Covid has prevented them from training ANY new controllers for the last 18 months at his shop, so the natural come-and-go of the operation, quits, retirements, etc., has left them very short staffed and working a ton of OT.

All that is to say, the ripples of covid are with us in a ton of ways that aren’t immediately obvious, and they’re going to be with us a very, very long time, no matter who we’re hashtagging about.

 

Have you not been watching GOP news for the last 20 years?

Here - I'll summarize: "Everything bad in your life can actually be blamed on Democrats, and specifically liberals. And our only choice - even though, sure, they've got some flaws - is to vote Republican again this year."

 

The airline issues that have happened since people started traveling again are because airlines have cut routes / number of flights on those routes / using smaller planes to make up the losses.

If you had a issue because of weather or whatever, there was almost never a problem getting on the next flight or another one later in the day because there would be enough open seats on every ensuing flight and there were more of them. They have left no margin of error now so if you are the second flight out of eight to a city, there is literally no seat for anyone until starting the next day, or the day after that because Day 2 is full.

 

The only flight I've been on was to Pittsburgh and back to Boston in July for a wedding. JetBlue used to have 5-6 nonstops on that route a day. Now there are like 2-3.

 

Purely anecdotal, but I’ve flown a lot this summer, actually, almost always booking a week or two out and have switched flights last minute several times without issue or significant expense. And frankly, the tickets have been much more reasonable out of my small local airport than they were pre-pandemic, so I’ve flown from there way more than normal.

That’s almost exclusively United, though. We got Southwest into our local airport last year and I figured I’d be flying them a lot. They haven’t been close on price, though, so United it has been.


I’d just seen reports (right wing reports) that the Southwest issues were related to the vax, and that ATC walkouts were a part of that same protest. I’m confident at this point the ATC part is bullshit. That may change somewhat next month, though.

 

If asking nicely doesn't work, there's always the threat of somebody kicking your ass in the 2024 primary.

Again, if you like being a politician, it's probably not smart to tick off the majority of the electorate that got your there in the first place. Seven of 10 potential primary voters think she sucks at her job.

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